ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,571, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sysko AG Systeme & Komponenten (Jona, Switzerland).
"Oscillating armature pump" was invented by Norbert Helbling (Jona, Switzerland), Florian Wisskirchen (Weingarten, Germany), Michael Wisskirchen (Bad Wurzach, Germany) and Fred Partzsch (Neukirch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is based on an oscillating armature pump, in particular for a beverage machine, for conveying a liquid, having a pressure cylinder, a working cylinder, a working piston that has a piston part that is configured to be guided in the pressure cylinder and to delimit a pressure chamber together with th...